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It is politically correct to blame the gun. We are the victim. The gun is the bad guy. Humans cannot be blamed. Sometimes we may just be in the wrong place at the wrong time when a gun shoots a lot of people. Then we get blamed, but it is not really our fault. The only other possibility, it seems, is to blame people. People kill people but are we to ban people? Or is the truth and the solution, so...

There is an inverse relationship between faith and hate. When the child loses faith in others, when he understands there is no one whom he can trust, he feels betrayed. The child hates as he loses faith. To understand mass shootings, look at the failures of trust, the decay of faith and the level of betrayal. In the persistent decline in faith, in people and things the child can believe in, one wi...

Political stances are considered to be features we adopt later in life. However, it is common knowledge that youth tend towards activism and socialism whereas the more mature one becomes, the more likely it is that they will have shifted right on the political spectrum. In this essay it is argued that this is as much about biology and the maturation process itself, than about intrinsic value struc...

Conservatism has often been linked with capitalism. It has been linked to libertarianism even more frequently. It is true that conservatives prefer small governments as do libertarians, but conservatives are champions of merit, not greed. Economic power is not equitable to merit anymore than political power is an indicator of merit. When we forget freedom is not a right but must be earned, we forg...

It is easy to sell or exchange a cow for money. It is more difficult to turn the cow itself into currency and do this in a way that produces economic development. Once we discover how to turn a cow into currency, we discover we can use any asset as a source of economic development. Anyone, anywhere regardless of their situation can begin the economic development process, regardless of whether they...

It may seem an unnecessary question with only one possible response. But then we are faced with a slew of past technologies modern man is unable to replicate. Despite the technologies we have developed we are also aware that the roots and foundation of these technologies were all developed by our ancestors. What we moderns do is make incremental improvements to the fundamental inventions that were...

The abortion debate is not about rights it is about power. The struggle is over the amount of power the woman has over her body. The law cannot give rights it can only give power. A legal right is the legal power it has nothing to do with natural rights or with natural law. But humans cannot live by the dictum of might makes right. The power to do does not give anyone the moral legitimacy to do. T...

Only the West embraces democracy and the East uses it to crush and exploit the West, even in our own nations. The worries about divisive politics are worries about the impact democracy is having on our communities. When your livelihood relies on having one party elected rather than another, when you see your culture dependent on elections going a particular way, conflict is going to escalate.

The time to be nice is past and gone. This is not a garden party we are in a fight for survival. Those who read the bible ought to know this, those who see the seriousness with which the left views a setback, ought to be aware that these are no inconsequential battles. The left is not in this to tie or suffer a gentlemanly defeat. The left has only one objective and that is to win and they are not...

Why are abortionists not charged with a capital offense if the fetus is a child? Society is unable to deny the fetus is human yet few of us equate abortion with murder. However, the legal and moral explanation why an exception ought to be made in this case has never been made. The claim that the fetus is not a human life is an easy out. It is not a position rational persons wish to embrace. How th...

The abortion debate goes nowhere, because the debate does not consider what is lawful, or legally plausible. It is one thing to make abortion lawful, it is another to tie it to precedent or a legally defensible position. A draconian ruling can be implemented by a fascist regime willing to impose an opinion using totalitarian measures, but such measures only highlight the injustice of the law.

The needs of locavores and Intentional Community are different from the needs of globalists and free markets. Accessibility, security and ease of use are important considerations, but so is accountability. Costs must be accounted for accurately in the accounting system we use. The thing which plagues globalism and capitalism is externalized costs. These are costs externalized onto society and futu...

If poverty is not due to a lack of money poverty cannot be alleviated by giving people money. We need something more substantial and basic. A solution to the problem of poverty is not somehow related to the problem of how to make more money or how to print or issue more money. In fact solving the problem of poverty has nothing to do with money whatsoever.

Faith is not hope. If all you are living on is a hope that has no substance, you lack faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. It possesses realness. The hope one will graduate after years of study is based on faith in all the work one has done. If all you have is hope without substance you are likely to fail. Does this mean our salvation is based on works, surely no. But this is why we...

What is reality, we can see it but we cannot find it. The more we look the more it chaotic and fragile it becomes. What looks solid and unmovable from a distance when seen up close and highly magnified becomes a little more than potential changes that may or may not happen depending on what our expectations are.

The story of The Rich Young Man who met Jesus, but could not sell his many possessions and give the proceeds to the poor, and follow Jesus, has always been problematical for Christians, not the least because for atheists, it represented the hypocrisy of Christians. But what if the story is not understood? What if the advent of cryptocurrency permits us to better understand what Jesus meant?

Western civilization like western science has succeeded because it is based on objective, quantitatively verifiable data. Western civilisation can be quantified, and its progress validated, unlike other cultures. By understanding the scientific nature of western civilization, it is possible to vastly improve its performance. Like any other activity, by establishing an objective measure of comparis...

Kant was an influential moral philosopher who would have us all live as if our actions were to be a pattern for all men to follow. This might be considered to be an early form of the What Would Jesus Do movement. But the implications go deeper than this. Not only does acting as if we might be a model for other humans to emulate put us in the place of God, modelling good behaviour, makes us prey to...

Capitalism is the cornerstone of Western civilization but has been infected by liberal assumptions about money, the free market and ownership. There is a conservative version of these ideas that not only changes the fundamental form of a commercial enterprise it prevents both socialism and communism. With a better understanding of what capital is and how it operates the creation of liabilities is...

Equality and diversity are contradictory ideas. The only way men are made equal is by eliminating diversity.

There is no such thing as hate-speech because hate has no objective existence, it is an emotion. Imagine a speaker calls for the murder of Christians and another speaker calls for the culling of geese. One phrase is considered hate speech and the other is an issue of property rights. Both are calls to action leading to death. The statements are grammatically the same and contain identical informat...

It is impossible to solve the problem of poverty unless we take the steps we need to follow to enable people to produce goods and services. Civilization is not built on compassion and decency, it is built on the backs of laborers and with the hands of workers. If you want to enjoy the fruits of man’s power you need to give him something to work with. Its that simple.

This very short podcast is a step-by-step illustration about how a group of citizens could set up an equitocracy and eliminate unemployment. To fully understand the process access these podcasts and the Apriorian channel on Youtube.

We can strive for equality or equity but not both. This world of the flesh desires equality because the flesh prefers standards that are visible. If we all have the same wealth or the same position or the same level of education, we can all think we are equal. But in fact this still does not mean we all have the same value. The church does not believe we are equal or can be equal. Even if in the c...

The left has adopted the bizarre idea that equity means a social agenda focused on making everyone in a contest or competition arrive at the finish line neck and neck. This is as unreasonable as it is undoable. When compared to naturalism and survival of the fittest, it merely takes the end of the race with all of its inequality and transfers this inequality to the start of the race, in reverse. T...